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Despite these difficulties, Dimon said the bank has the money to repay taxpayer funds it received from the U. S. government in October.

"It really bears of watching, " Dimon said. He said the U. S. needs to invest in infrastructure, including transportation and health care.

Dimon said the bank's compensation ratio is likely to normalize, but jokingly added: "We don't want our people getting depressed. "

Bill Winters, J. P. Morgan's former co-head of investment banking, once said the bank's shares would fall 20% if Dimon left.

CEO Jamie Dimon said the bank expects the downward trend to continue, but added continued losses are linked to the unemployment rate.

Dimon said he was less certain about the direction of the U. S. economy.

In a speech Wednesday, Dimon said the accounting rule had been taken 'to a ridiculous point.

J. P. Morgan Chief Executive Officer James Dimon has made it a priority to increase the bank's global reach.

Mr Lewis's abrupt retirement overshadowed a bold management overhaul decreed just a day earlier by Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan chief executive.

As for Mr Dimon, would he be able to resist the urge to tell the protesters exactly what he thinks of them?

(Dimon later acknowledged the intensity with which he expressed his views).

The team is made up of executives from his days at Citigroup as well as a cadre of J. P. Morgan executives nurtured by Dimon and outsiders.

Yet the esteem in which the investor community now seems to hold Mr Dimon can easily be withdrawn.

Still, Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase's canny boss, will see this as a time of great opportunity.

But Dimon soon began to see reasons to pull back.

"The card business is going through a substantial adjustment, " Dimon said on a conference call with investors.

Poor people management has been a criticism that has accompanied Mr Dimon throughout his professional life.

On Easter morning, Mr. Schwartz called Mr. Dimon. "There's a psychological limit here, " he said.

Mr Dimon's aides bristle at such statements, mindful that when Wall Street crowns a new emperor it also sets him up for a downfall.

Under the leadership of Jamie Dimon, the bank has rescued Bear Stearns on Wall Street and Washington Mutual, a mortgage lender.

There's little hope of a turnaround anytime soon, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon told the Financial Times in an interview.

Like many things in the capital markets, the argument put forth by Hintz and Dimon makes sense, at least on paper.

Mr. Dimon asked Mr. Schwartz the next time the two talked. "Shareholders may vote this down! "

Dimon, the CEO of a bank that has suffered less than others, has an opinion that carries weight.

CEO Jamie Dimon, who's been hailed as one of the banking industry's top leaders, called J. P. Morgan's annual results 'mediocre'.

Once all this is dealt with and the environment is more "normal" , Mr Dimon thinks JPM could earn $22 billion-24 billion a year.

Surgeon Theodore Dimon describes the hideous wounds left by weapons like the Minie ball.

After more than two decades marked by controversy, drama and, of late, triumph, Mr Dimon sits atop Wall Street.

On Wednesday evening, Mr. Dimon visited Bear Stearns to talk with hundreds of restive managers in the firm's second-floor auditorium.

"Directors do not design aeroplanes for Boeing or make the food for Taco Bell, " says Mr Dimon of JPMorgan Chase.

The combined weight of that data triggered Dimon's call to King in Africa.

Mr Dimon is widely viewed as Wall Street's sole remaining hero: the title of a new biography is "Last Man Standing" .

Some analysts and investors value Mr Dimon's dynamism and deep knowledge of his business and prefer his straight-talking style.

Mr. Dimon says he has no regrets about deals that got away.

Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, has thus far steered the group through the credit squeeze in fairly good health.

Just look how J. P. Morgan Chase's (JPM) Jamie Dimon treats government relations as a line of business.

In the next few hours, Mr. Dimon would have a bigger reason to be annoyed.

Jamie Dimon, the boss of JPMorgan Chase, told investors last week that his bank "was making loans all the time" .

Mr Dimon says that any upturn will not alter his preference for avoiding grand strategic pronouncements.

Mr. Dimon, a newcomer in Washington politics, was incensed by political bashing of the banking industry.

He also counts Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan Chase and his predecessor William B. Harrison, Jr. as 'good friends. '

But you didn't see Jamie Dimon going through a long, tedious monologue on the role of a Wall Street market maker, did you?

Jamie Dimon, chief executive, stressed in a conference call that JPMorgan had fully integrated Bank One, which it acquired in 2004.

Chief Executive James Dimon said last week after the New York bank posted its first quarterly profit decline in nearly three years.

JPMORGAN CHASE managed to avoid big losses largely thanks to the tone set by its boss, Jamie Dimon.

Standing on the dais with two senior lieutenants, Mr. Dimon tried to strike a conciliatory tone.

Dimon said banks are raising capital and hedge funds have been through massive de-leveraging.

Just imagine if J. P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon called the Nigerian ambassador in Washington and warned about the radicalization of his son.

This left Mr Dimon free to snap up tottering rivals including Bear Stearns, an investment bank, and Washington Mutual, a thrift.

Dimon's comments were the second time in two days that JPMorgan executives delivered investors a generally upbeat message.

But, if his personal history has taught him anything, Mr Dimon will be keen to avoid any more dramas.

"I am unaware of any club, " was Mr Dimon's terse response a couple of days later.

Both have been with Dimon for about two decades and both have garnered mention as potential CEOs at J. P. Morgan and other banks.

"This is as important and real to her as anything that Jamie Dimon [JP Morgan chief executive] does, " says Prof Rose.

"There are still too many banks in the United States, " Dimon told Calyon Securities analyst Mike Mayo on the call.

Its chief executive, Jamie Dimon, is a friend of President Obama's from Chicago, a frequent White House guest and a big Democratic donor.

Mr Dimon is passionate about the benefits of bigness, insisting that "anyone who says [economies of scale] don't exist is crazy. "

Mr Dimon envisages strong organic growth as the economy recovers, helped by the opening of another 2, 000 branches over five years.

Mr. Dimon moved on to Chicago's Bank One Corp. , where he slashed costs and sacked managers he viewed as ineffective.

"We don't know when the recovery is, " Chief Executive Jamie Dimon said on a conference call with investors.

Mr Dimon said there would be no big programme of lay-offs in investment banking.

In a call to Mr. Dimon, Mr. Paulson reluctantly agreed to bless a higher price.

However, JPMorgan's CEO Jamie Dimon still struck a cautious tone about future economic growth.

But there is reason to believe that Dimon has built an organization capable of survivng his departure.

'Too late, too hard, too difficult, too low returns, ' Mr. Dimon told investors this year.

"What this hedge morphed into violates our own principles, " Mr Dimon added.

People close to the situation said Mr Dimon was planning to send about 100 such letters.

Mr Dimon's US counterparts at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, however, will not make the trip.

More importantly to J. P. Morgan's success is the broader team of executives assembled by Dimon since taking the reins in 2005.

In 1996, Dimon Sanders because in a fish pond by police to stay away too long.

But in the end, of course, the decision to shun subprime made Dimon a hero.

No CEO's profile has risen as high or as quickly as Dimon's during the crisis.

J. P. Morgan has said its chairman and CEO, James Dimon, will receive about $17 million in bonuses but no cash.

This "detritus of the storm" , as Mr Dimon calls it, will be expensive to clear up.

Mr Dimon envies Citigroup's international business and seeks ways for JPMorgan to build a consumer business outside the US.

Mr Dimon learned when and how to pounce on undervalued assets from Wall Street's ultimate bargain shopper, Sandy Weill.

"I now bleed Morgan blood, " Mr Dimon declares in the biography.

JPMorgan Chase added 1. 1% after chief Jamie Dimon was quoted calling the Basel III capital rules "anti-American. "

Mr. Dimon helped assemble what became the pre-eminent U. S. bank.

One evening CEO Jamie Dimon tracked him down to fire a red alert.

Mr Dimon, for now, appears unrepentant.

Mr. Dimon eventually made a low bid that was rejected.

Mr. Dimon couldn't fathom making a deal that night, but he agreed to try to help.

James Dimon, J. P. Morgan CEO, received a bonus of about $17 million in restricted stock and options for 2009.

He has impressed Mr Dimon, who abhors yes men, by standing his ground when they disagree.

He asked if Mr. Dimon could speak with Mr. Schwartz.

The share price would fall by 20% if Mr Dimon left, Mr Winters once said.

Mr Dimon and JPMorgan have also been lucky.

Mr Stumpf took home $21m in pay for 2009, more than Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase.

Dimon pledged J. P. Morgan's support.

Lehman lawyers introduced a letter from JPMorgan Chase & Co head Jamie Dimon that accused Barclays of misleading the court.

They have outperformed strongly during the last year as Jamie Dimon's efforts to squeeze costs and to improve returns have paid off.

I think this is why Dimon smokes in his cell alone.

So, what do you want from me, Dimon? Huh?

However, Mr Dimon said JPMorgan would first look at expanding organically in Japan.

Yesterday, Dimon said as much at the JP Morgan annual shareholders meeting held in Columbus, Ohio. From Bloomberg

Dimon's mea culpa is more than matched by Donald Kohn's 'come to Jesus' statements highlighted in today's Financial Times